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LAMPY'S 
EARLY DAYS 



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1909 






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LAMPY'S EARLY DAYS 

BY AN OLD LAMPOONER 



bout the middle of Jan- 
uary, 1876, ''The Har- 
vard Lampoon" was 
founded by Ralph Cur- 
tis, of the then Senior 
Class. 

This journal was es- 
tablished to insure the 
publication of a **dig" at Mr. Norton's attempt 
to develop the Harvard Art Club into a ''Society 
of The Dilettantii," that should undertake arch- 
aeological excavations at the ' ' seats of ancient 
culture." 

The Art Club was a feeble organization in 
which there were a few lovers of art, and not a 
few members somewhat conspicuously endowed 
with other than aesthetic tastes. This organiza- 
tion was certainly a fair subject for satire, but 
this skit, which was the joint production of Ralph 
Curtis and Jack Wheelwright, in the form of a 

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report of one J. Diddler. the Club's agent, had 
been rejected by The Harvard Advocate, much 
to Curtis's annoyance, — he being an editor of 
that then abnormally solemn and self-satisfied 
journal. 

The joint authors of this article, with Sam Sher- 
wood, — all of "76. — and Sherwood's brother 
Arthur and Billv Otis, both of '78. were the oris^inal 
Lampoon conspirators. 




RrSH TO T\ HITOX'S FOR THE "L.^MPOOn" 



The plot was kept a close secret. Before their 
bomb was exploded Dan Martin. '77. another Ad- 
vocate editor, was admitted to the band. Most of 
these youths were in the last term of their Senior 
year, and it was not seriously intended, or even 
supposed possible, that more than one number of 
the paper would be published. 




One morning the trees in the Yard were found 
covered with posters announcing the appearance 
that day of *'The Harvard Lampoon,, or Cam- 
bridge Charivari." The Art Club skit, the original 
cause of the publication, was embellished with an 
initial letter by Curtis, a reproduction of which 
heads this paper. With numerous other illustra- 
tions and witty reading matter full of local hits the 
paper was so well received, that the editors deter- 
mined to carry it through that term as a fort- 
nightly. Ned Wheelwright, having produced an 
illustration for Martin's verses on "The Sweet 
Hour of Prayer," became an editor; and the Board 
as then made up remained unchanged until the 
end of that college year. 

In the third number appeared a sketch by Frank 
Attwood, the first of his series of "Ye Manners & 
Customs of Ye Harvard Studente," after the 



manner of Doyle. Without them Lampv's life 
would indeed have been short. For three volumes 
of the paper at least one of these cartoons ar: r: :-? 1 
in every issue. Curtis created Snodkins. zi^e 
typical Freshman. 

Martin and Curtis were, as I have said, editors 
of The Advocate, and now the allegiance of Fred 
St:r::^:r. ?..7.i Barrett Wendell to The Crimson was 
sha^ci:. :-na they began to contribute to The 
Lampoon. Martin's parody of Tennyson in 
''Broke. Broke. Broke." foimd immediate ap- 
plause ani::.^ :: 'rr.rads who were nearing the 
end 01 a Cvi'iic^c ycai. Martin also wrote many- 
edit orials, full of the kindly philosophy and orrace- 
ful himior i :■_::.;: : . - lay in his work in L::r ::.::i 
H:r::er"s Wee.^ iy Jack Wheelwright, too, contrib- 
uiea editori:,-- .".- well as verses; *'A Defiance," 
especially app.:--.:ied in this *'*' mutual admiration 
society." ended thus: — 

■'The:: let them keep their vfle degree, 
I shall not sob or pine: 
Like Clarence, I shall drown my care 
In one huge butt of wine." 

Arthur Sherwood wrote "Xevr Words" to sev- 
eral "'Old Songs" that need his voice to do them 
justice. Curtis was as ready with his pen as with 
his pencil. He was especially good in pithy para- 
graphs and in the review of college papers. The 



College was aghast at Lampy's hardihood in deal- 
ing with the Med. Fac., then generally supposed 
to be the arbiter of the social destinies of the 
undergrads. 



M»»NE^3 AUK CvsTOMs or je Harvard Stvbemts. A I'stospoCTX or ys 3oate-Hov3c. 




The Advocate published a series of articles 
holding up to scorn the gilded youth of the College. 
And when the writer of these priggish produc- 
tions accused the somewhat frivolous, but not 
often vicious, young men of *' having fine clothes 
and a cigarette on the outside, but a mass of loath- 
some corruption within," he was speedily laughed 
out of court. 



The Art Club and the concerted attempt to 
make knickerbockers fashionable furnished ma- 
terial for merriment. Our Jester did not deny 
himself some veiled *'gags" on individuals, but 



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these were in the spirit of the Pudding Programmes 
rather than of the Mock Parts then happily 
abolished. 

Lampy achieved astonishing financial success, 
so great, indeed, that he was embarrassed by un- 
accustomed riches until he adopted the policy — 
in a manner justified by the precedent of Punch 
— of laying aside from his capital a sum sufficient 
for the production of one issue of '*The Sheet," and 
then spending the remainder on good dinners. 



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At the first of these feasts there were no guests. 
But for the excellence of the repast and its jolhty, 
it is notable only for the first production of Arthur 
Sherwood's song. — "The Lampoon Meets To- 
night." — of which Lanipy's Shingle, by Ned 
TVheelwright. may be considered an illustration. 

At the next dinner I\Ir. Xorton who had shown 
particularly kindly interest in the paper, and did 
not take the Art Club satire so seriously as had 
The Advocate' was the sole guest. He gave the 
Lampooners all the encouragement they needed, 
without stimulating their conceit. At the third, 
and last, dinner of the original Board ]\Lr. Norton, 
amono; other o;uests. was the truest of honor. These 



youths were greatly flattered and encouraged to 
have a friend of poets^and sages join so generously 
in their merrymaking; the serious turn he finally 

_ gave the feast was 

long remembered 
by that company. 
Mr. Norton's 
kindly offer, that 
night, of counsel, 
hinted rather than 
expressed, was ac- 
cepted in after life 
by more than one 
of that dinner- 
party. 

Jack DuFais 
contributed to the 
Class Day num- 
ber a vivid impression of a recent ^^sit of Dom 
Pedro to the College. The crowning glories of the 
first volume were Attwood's Class Day cartoons, 
then notable, but now also historically valuable. 

In the procession may be recognized miniature 
portraits of Ned Hall, the Chief Marshal of '76, 
President Eliot marching with Teddy Williams, the 
Orator, ''Dr. Peabo " with Dickinson, the Poet, 
followed by the throng of the class clad in full 
dress in the morning, but yet in a traditional cos- 
tume, not in affected feminine toggery, borrowed 




Dom Pedro as he Appeared to the 

Students in Recognition of 

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from England, and now voluntarily worn by seniors 
during their last self-conscious days in college. 

The second cartoon is probably the only repre- 
sentation of the picturesque, jolly Rush about the 
Rebellion Tree recalling to all old Lampooners 
happy memories of good fellows and pretty girls. 




Exchanges 



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N the second Board were: Att- 
wood, Martin, Wendell, Arthur 
Sherwood, Jack DuFais, Frank 
Ware, Coolidge, and Josh Stet- 
son, who brought system into 
the conduct of Lampy's affairs, 
while Sig Butler assisted Billy 
Otis in charming advertisers, 
but all the graduate Lampoon- 
ers sent contributions. Ned Wheelwright, in- 
spired by the teachings of Professor Moore, and 
aided by one of Diirer's 
woodcuts, made a design 
for the cover which is 
essentially that used to- 
day. With a mixture 
of classical and mediae- 
val sentiment it shows 
Lampy, another St. 
George, mounted on an 
armored Pegasus ready 
to contend with the mon- 
sters of college life. j^hn Louis Dufais, '77 * 




* Taken some years after his college days and the only one available for 
this publication. 



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Curtis sent from a Parisian atelier a sketch of 
Hollis Holworthy, the typical swell Senior, — a 
character previously conceived by Wendell as the 
hero of a college farce, but then appearing in *'The 
Sheet" for the first time. Holworthy was destined 
to become almost historic. 

Templeman Coolidge gave prophetic suggestion 
of the dress for a catcher, prepared to stand up 
against the terrific pitching then recently invented 
by Harold Ernst. The same pencil depicted Draw- 
ing Implements found in the possession of the Art 
Club. Frank Sturgis showed some objects in the 
bric-a-brac collection of that club. 



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DkAWIXG biPLEMEXTs IN THE 

Possession of The HL\et.\iid 
Art Clttb 



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The Doric axd Ionic Gentlqiex 
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Bric-a-Brac Exhibition 
of the h. a. c. 



Waddy Longfellow 
strated a reference 
in Norton's lectures 
to *' Doric and Ionic 
Gentlemen. " Prob- 
ably to propitiate 
the Classical Editor, 
Attwood gave an illus- 
tration of the iEneid. 
He also continued his 
"Manners & Customs 
Ye Harvard Studente." 
A Recitation" the artist 
depicts himself. 




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A kindly notice of 
''The Sheet" in 
The Nation was 
suitably acknowl- 
edged by an Att- 
wood sketch, 
Lampy was still 
more honored when 
Henry Wads- 
worth Longfellow 
sent him a special con- 
^^F tribution, which is 
here reproduced from the original manuscript. 



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And again Ibe poet ccHifiibiEled fbls KfMgram 

"^If yaa hax^ a. fEktsd io drae, 
Alwa^ g^*e Imhw jmo* besl 'wsie'; 



It secxmd TiJiiiiie Lanqij's 
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—as c^ntmned by Co(£d^ 
Tlie D^odo- dfflie FaiHi, 
: ziniTZtaQv associated wiili 



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Mr. Norton appears as 
he sat on the platform 
:^^ of Sanders Thea- 
tre. The sketch 
has as its legend a 
fitting quotation 
from Chaucer's Prologue 
Canterbury Tales : — 

nevre yit no vileiyne ne sayde 
his lyf unto no maner wight, 
verray perf ykt gentil knight. ' ' 

As there were murmurs 
the Faculty at 



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Lampy's boldness, Sam 

^ Sherwood called upon the 

^ — ^ subject of the Portrait 

^ he contributed, and, 



showing it him, asked per- 
mission to publish; he 
replied that he *'had no 
objection, except that the 



De Gustibus Non Disputandum 
Goody Advocate. " There are 
certain things that even the Lam- 
poon should not caricature, and 
one of these is the faculty (!!!)." 




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handkerchief was sticking out of his pocket; but 
he was consoled in that he was allowed to wear 
plaid trousers in spite of Mrs. Lowell's objection." 
On the production of the portrait of Dean 
Gurney and his *' dorg," this excellent source of 
inspiration was dried up. Lampy was then noti- 
fied that caricatures of the Faculty must cease. 
It is believed, however, that the College Censor 
did not so much object to this portrait as to that 
of Dr. Peabody, but had not been prompt in his 
admonition. 



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Jack WTieelwrigiit's '"Palace of Truth'" made 
hit. It reads in part: — 

11 the ancient Silurian ages. 

Ere Truth had retired to her well, 

When mortals, with candor refreshing, 
Their innermost thoughts used to teh, 

'• Dick, bored by the wearisome waltzes. 

"Mid the swallow-tailed group at the ball, 
Stood, quite the limp caiy-atid, 
Supporting his part of the wall. 

'•'Remarked to him Jones. — "You're an ass. sir, 

Ill-bred as ill-looking, I own. 

But I "11 'knock you down" to my sister, 
Who's been sitting for hours alone.* 




'■' "Dear me. so you're dragged up at last, sir; 
Xot much to your credit I've heard 

That you dance like a camel with spavin. 

That your pretence to birth is absurd." 

" 'That your evening-suit reeks of tobacco; 

That your manners and speech are uncouth I ' 
'Would you wish, old man. to inhabit 
This glaring old "Palace of Truth.''*)" 



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Tpiird Board of Editors 



he Editors of the fourth 
volume were no longer 
wholly undergraduates ; 
Attwood, McLellan, Cool- 
idge, Harry Jackson and 
Johnny Bo wen, the two 
last being Business Edi- 
tors, were in college; but 
Stimson, Wendell, and 
Jack Wheelwright re- 
joined the Board; Bob 
Grant, '73, was made an 
editor, — all four being 
in the Law School. It 
was planned to deal more 
with the world at large, the intent being to establish 
shortly a full-fledged American satirical journal out- 
side of the College. 

Political cartoons were 
attempted. Attwood began 
a series of "Manners & >^ (^j:,. 
Customs of Ye Bostonians." ^^^D ^, 





A Visiting Statesman 



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Bob Grant gave, as a serial, his parody on 
Howells' ''Chance Acquaintance," entitled **An 
Accidental Pick-up." His contribution of society 
verses met with great applause, — "The Wall- 
Flowers"; *'The Chaperones"; and *'The Little 
Tin Gods on Wheels," the latter ending thus: 



Chorus of Little Tin Gods on Wheels. 

Dear little, sweet little, nice little damosels, 

We, the magnificent cream of society 

Bid you good-night, and we trust you feel gratitude. 

For the sweet smiles we have scattered among you. 

We have been bored, but we gladly put up with it. 

Nothing is sweeter than disinterestedness." 






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See thesr -T:r5::\0-e. time-serring hypocrites. 
Prj-:a^::v ■ ;':;.5:i::^ :hat we are m Ijve ~itli them. 
Pi:!:.:! :rc^:u:cs, :hey think tha: :-:rv -a:ter us 
By their ^'Timaoes. that look like orang-outangs. 
TVhe:-. "'e ..T^seir/ole ^ : sew for the indig'ent. 
Trds: :^ : :> ::::^-^cr :::e Liiile tin monsters." 



"The Little Tin Gijds on TMieels" was later 
published in pamphlet foiTQ. illustrated bv Attwood. 
One of these illustrations is here reproduced. 

In these verses, which followed the model oi the 
Greek 'irama. Hollis Holworthy was the "first 
wah-ci::^' ^ent." Scoring a success as they did. 
Holwortliy's name became widely known. He 
became an accepted t^ije. 



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Many good verses came from Stimson, — some 
inspired by Kant and Schopenhauer, too deep for 
full appreciation by his associates, except possibly 
Wendell; other of his poetical productions were 
more within the comprehension of the less learned, 
— his parodies of Heine, for instance : — 

"On my little sweetheart's eyes so bright 
I make the finest canzonets ; 
On my little sweetheart's teeth so white 
I make the sweetest terzinets; 
On my little sweetheart's hair so light 
I make the noblest rondelets; 
And if she'd only a heart, upon it 
I'd write a charming little sonnet." 

Wendell, then as now much interested in social 
analyses, conceived other types than Holworthys, 
but these did not "catch on." Wendell could 
always be relied on to justify a drawing the joke 
of which had been lost, or which had none, or 
to fill with satire the voids in the printer's forms. 
He also introduced into the Sanctum the Classical, 
the Sporting, and the Religious Editors, whose con- 
tributions added much merriment to the Sheet, 
while the talks of Lampy with various personages, 
especially that with The Great Man, might well 
have been pondered seriously, by those then and 
since responsible for the welfare of the College. 

Lawrence Lowell contributed several punning 



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paragraphs. His brother Percival had not yet 
developed his Uranian theories, and nothing from 
him appeared in the Sheet. 



THE HARVARD LAMPOON, 




Templeman CooUdge's Decoration of the Index 
of Vol. IV is good in itself, and has added interest 
in that the now President of the college was the 
willing model for the daring boatman. No likeness 
was here attempted or given. 



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Jack Wheelwright put in a bit of local color in 
"The Poetical Cox": — 

"Lightly as cockles dance upon the ocean, 
Wafted by zephyrs on a summer sea, 
Skim we along, the poetry of motion. 

"You're digging up the bottom, 
and 'meeting' No. 3 !" 



" 'T is joy to see the boat obey the rudder 

As minds the falling stone old Newton's laws; 

Looms near the Bridge where Freshman bow oars shudder. 

Crash ! Crash ! 'Ye Gods, there go the starboard oars !' " 










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Dan Marnn's verses, sen: :r:i:i >.r~ lor 
wLere ne T«'as trying Ms hand in iht t : : 

of The Stih. dealt main!- -rrr^ -r ^.: :.— 
seK-STipport : — 

M7 : . . : \- -. 

Upon the c(^. ecdd worii I r:i ^:^^^-^ 

T : i^ake my living. 

- : - : :_ "oii: b-ef <?re me lies, — 
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From the same scribe came "ihe io!I':'':viii^ verses 
in the same vein. 

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Y _: - "on ate? 

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Silvrr ::iT5. and foits and spoons t 
TVtTt :1^:t coins in the pockets 
Q: ~: -IT i^dhood's i>anialoons? 



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Ere you dissipate a quarter 
Do you scrutinize it twice ? 
Have you ceased to look on water 
Drinking as a nauseous vice ? 
Do you wear your brother's breeches 
Though the buttons scarcely meet ? 
Does the vanity of riches 
Form no part of your conceit ? 

*' I am with you, fellow-pauper ! 
Let us share our scanty crust; 
Burst the bonds of fiscal torpor; 
Go where beer is sold on trust. 
Let us, freed from res angustae, 
Seek some fair Utopean mead. 
Where the throat is never dusty, 
Where tobacco grows — a weed." 




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Portchuckus to Portchuck. ' ' Her was a great deal taller than him wj 
and they was the vulgarest couple you ever did see." (a fact) 

In Ned Wheelwright's ''Sun- 
day Afternoon in the Yard" we 
have a reminder of the ''Port- 
chuck's" costume of that day. 
Templeman CooHdge exempH- 
fies the quaUty of the service at 
Memorial Hall. 

In the Class Day number ap- 
peared Attwood's "Procession of 
the Unemployed," one of his 
cleverest hits. 

Charley Coolidge, a newly chosen Freshman 
editor, gives the tailpiece to the volume, which serves 
the same function in this paper. 

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were 
ino;. 



UT Lampy had long needed a pet 
to take the place occupied by 
Punch's Toby. Stimson recog- 
nized this need early in the fifth 
volume and, following the sug- 
gestion of "in medio tutissimus 
ibis," caught the bird that has 
since been our Jester's devoted 
companion, but his highest power 
- of speech and mental acuteness 
developed mainly by Wendell's careful train- 




Naturally, at this time Lampy began to pay more 
heed to **the eternal feminine." Stimson's verses, 
entitled '^Tobacco & Turtles," end with these 
lines : — 



Let me see, — she was given to flirting, 

Extremely extravagant too — 

And a way most unpleasant of blurting 

Out what was unpleasantly true — 

She had wit; and her talk was diverting, 

TVTien the wit was not pointed at you. 

On the whole, 't is as well perhaps, Harry, 

(In confidence strict, this I say,) 

That the girl I once meant to marry 

Was married vesterdav." 



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Many of Martin's verses were affected by the 
same influence, as in his '*Epithalamium" : — 

"We rode together miles and miles; 
My pupil, she, and I, her Chiron. 
At home I revelled in her smiles, 
And read her extracts out of Byron. 
We roamed by moonlight, chose our stars 
(I thought it most authentic billing). 
Explored the woods, climbed over bars. 
Smoked cigarettes, and broke a shilling. 



An infinitely blissful week 

Went by in this Arcadian fashion. 

I hesitated long to speak. 

But ultimately breathed my passion. 

She said her heart was not her own ; 

She said she'd love me like a sister; 

She cried a little (not alone) ; 

I told her not to fret, and — kissed her. 



I saw her in her bridal dress 

Stand pure and lovely at the altar. 

I heard her firm response — that * Yes,' 

Without a quiver or a falter; 

And here I sit, and drink to her 

Long life and happiness ; God bless her ! 

Now fill again ! — No heeltaps, sir ! 

Here's to — ' Success to her successor! '" 



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**Ye Manners & Customs of Ye Bostonians" 
still furnished subjects for Att wood's pencil. 

In the "Bicycle Meet" we have again a drawing 
of some historic or, at least, antiquarian interest. 




A QUIET GAME OF CARDS AT PRINCETON 

Politics absorbed but little of Lampy's attention ; 
for the most part he treated of college and local 
matters. A sketch by Wheelwright was suggested 
by a shooting affray among Princeton students. 

Curtis sent an illustration of Suckling's lines : 

''Beauties that from Worth arise, 
Are like the grace of deities." 



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he next Board was composed of the 
same men except Wendell, and Arthur 
ICffiP^^ Ware, '73, and Frank Sturgis, 75, 
came on. After the mid-years Ed- 
ward Hale, '79, and Arthur Hale, 
'80, became Editors, and Sam Ham- 
mond, '81, a Business Editor. 
Grant parodied Black in a 
/'serial entitled ''O'Toole of 
"^ Kildare," illustrated by Att- 
wood, who vividly depicts the thrilling wreck 
of the yacht. 

As the Butler 
campaign was hot, 
Lampy's interest 
in politics revived. 
One of the best of 
the political carica- 
tures, happily sug- 
gestive of an event 
of the Civil War 
and an Arabian 
Nights tale, Ben 
Butler emerging 
from a bottle, was 
by Ned Willson, '75. Wad Longfellow gave the 
initial on this page. 




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U^MPOONERS 



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Some small sketches illustra- 
tive of a college Primer 
^ appeared, which gave 
promise of the style 
that Lampy's most tal- 
ented disciple later devel- 
oped ; but, on the whole, Att- 
wood's draughtsmanship and 
that of the other Lam- 
pooners, while less crude 
than formerly, had be- 
come cramped and 
somewhat more self- 
conscious than in the 
earlier days. Lampy was losing spontaneity, and 
had crystallized a bit. He showed the same symp- 
toms of premature old age 
in the next volume. This 
impression is the stronger 
because Attwood, head and 
shoulders above all other 
" Lampoon artists," was try 
ing different methods of ^ ^^ 

rendering, and had not yet ''found 
himself." In the Class Day number it 
is interesting to note the first appearance 
of Attwood's arrangement of several 
small sketches on one page. 






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He afterwards developed this arrangement most 
successfullv in "Events of the Month" in Life. 



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and 

only 

force 

with 

than 



concluded, during 
long vacation, that 
is complete education 
quired a longer com- 
)ined undergraduate 
^ and post-graduate 
course before he 
tried his fortune 
in the great world. 
Wendell, Sturgis, 
and Wheelwright re- 
mained as editors of the 
volumes. Kent, '82, 
Clip Sturgis, '81, a Business Editor, were the 
undergrads added to the 
The Sheet dealt more 
college and local affairs 
it had during|the preceding 
year. 

Frank Sturgis suggested 
the enrichment of the Col- 
lege curriculum by the 
foundation of other pro- 
fessorships similar to ,^ 
that in Chinese, then 
recently established. 



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THE HARVARD LAMPOON. 





LAMPY TO JOHN BULL. 

TOOT, toot the fish-horn ! bang the gun ! 
And let your Lion loud proclainv 
Britannia's latest feat at arms 
And glorj' of the British name ! 
He comes ! King Cetawayo comes ! 
Ve Cockneys, raise a joyful cheer 
Because your needle-guns prevailed 
Against the savage bow and spear. 

He comes ! But what shall be his fate ? 
Place through his nose an iron rifig', 
And up and down the world's expanse, 
Before the nations, lead the king. 
Then will the people quake with fear 
With this example in their eyes 

Of how the Lion conquers when 

The other fellow 's not his size ! 

Or give him Dizzy's old dress<oat, 
A white cravat all spick'and-span. 
And farm the royal negro out 
As Queen Victoria's " in-door man," 
And let him hand the soup to Wales, 
Run when the royal babies squall. 
And black the boots, and tend the door 
When Kaiser William comes to call. 

Or teach him Shoo-fly's gentle strain, 

" Grandfather's Clock," " Row, brothers, row.' 

Instruct him in the flip-flap art. 

And how to pick the light banjo. 

Then, with "Admission 'arf a crown," 

The profits surely would not fail 

To foot the bill when savage hands 

Next pull the British Lion's tail. 



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Another Harvard Professor 
OF THE Future 



Lampy touched a bit only on English poUtics. 
American pubHc affairs were not unnoticed, Ben 
Butler being the principal target for our Jester's 
shafts, although the Third-term Movement was 
also satirized. Lampy did not conceal his opinion 
of Blaine, and certainly gave indications that he 
was preparing to be a Mugwump. 



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Attwood satirized the Bostonese, as in a sketch 
of "The Inhabitants of Nahant Returning to 
Their Fatherland The First of May"; and in 
''Mr. Wendell Phillips's Realistic and Lifelike 
Picture of the St. Botolph Club." 





have that quaint ii^i 
simple expresaon that 
characterizes his ma- 
ture work. Ht evenTM- 
aUy icTcloiea a-i 
refined this style to a 

second year after 
graduation Attwood 
had "founi Liziseli."* 
and had abnos: leasei 
to I'c an amateur. 



Inthes 
3peai 
Journ 



appeared "RoUo's 



: : Cani- 
:m^e. ~ni:n has be- 
: me a classic. The 
first four chapters 
^ere ^^^ritten by Jack 
V^ nrr^^^risht: and then 



StLmson. Attwood's 
illustrations of -Rollo" 





Uncle George Visits Adam and Later Meets 
Some Frivolous Youths 




Uncle George and the Med. Fac. 
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In the Class Dav number 
of ISSO Lampy said good- 
ye to the College. The 
farewell sonnet, illustrated 

by Attwor..-]. TV as written by 
:- :::-nd Mr. John 

^/^ \ Campbell Robiuson, 

~ ' " ' who ha i : : : :. -ion- 
ally coniriouiea to 
the Sheet, and had 
b c 1 jT' e d it much 
h~r y-j'j'i cr::icism 




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LAMPY TO HIS CIin.nREN. 

"V/E various offspring of my teeming brain, 

Welcome once more, and then a long adieu 
To part at all, but most to part from you, 
Touches my heart-strings with a humorous pain 
Like colic gone astray. I shall retain. 

Albeit in fresh woods and pastures new, 
A love for all my first-born. Ye I drew 
While fancy yet was young. Yet why complain 
Of loss in parting from your airy shapes .> 

Ye are but types ; — the undergraduate lives, 
And, as successive classes fade away, 
Can see in Lampy's record what he apes, 
How Holworthy the tone to his set gives. 
And little Snodkins pla^s the ass for aye. 



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n the summer of 1880 many of the old 

^^ Lampooners were so engrossed in 

their professional work that Lampy's 

dream of founding; an American 

Punch grew less clear, although he 

had held quite faithfully to Punch's 

custom of a feast, either a lunch or 

dinner, preceding each issue of the 

paper. 

Lampy neyer attempted to appear as 
'*a hard-yisaged Jester amid the stern 
affairs of the outer world," as he threat- 
ened he might in his farewell editorial, although his 
career led to the founding of the first illustrated 
American satirical journal ; two or three years 
later, encouraged by the success of the Lampoon, 
Mr. John Mitchell determined to carry out this 
project which he had long had in mind, and he 
induced Martin, who had abandoned journalism 
and was then learning to manufacture paper, to be 
the first editor of Life. Attwood was engaged as a 
regular contributor, and that journal was started on 
its successful career, the first number appearing in 
January, 1883. In the earliest volumes of this paper 
may be found the efforts of many past editors and 
contributors of its predecessor. Of these Attwood 
was easily foremost. His work steadily improved 

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until he became the most serious, yet the most 
humorous, and one of the most skilful American 
caricaturists. Indeed, his place is high among the 
English-speaking masters of his art. 

In 1880, after Lampy's retirement from the 
world, J. T. Wheelwright published in pamphlet 
form '*A New Chance Acquaintance," which was 
cleverly illustrated by Attwood. 

'*The South End" at this time was the designa- 
tion of a distinct social group in Boston, differing 
in its traditions from "Beacon Hill." Mr. How- 
ells, on his arrival from the West, looked upon this 

stratification as a novel dis- 
covery, and worked it as 
"rich diggings" for his social 
studies. Lampy had found 
no little amusement in the 
novelist's earnestness on 
this subject. In this skit 
Tom Chestnut, "a swell in 
Boston town ... a doubling 
'-Wlrv of the Horn," discovers a 
Patagonian maid, and forth- 
/V.^ V ^ with madly woos her. 




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g^^-^-.>:S:^^ 








- ,-x, .».' 



'''T is strange a nose-ring to tke face 
^iizii 'iignity should lend. 
I 1 1've lier madlT. though she 's from 
Tlie S<3Uthesi kind of End. — 
The Verv Sriuthem End.'"' 

Chestnut, like the hero in "The Lady of the Aroo- 
stook," basely deserts the maiden on the unex- 
pected arrival of ladies of his acquaintance from his 

native tovm. 








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'■zJU^'^^^y^, 







This caricature of himself, in costume for the 
Artists' Festival of 1887, was Attwood's signature 
in a note concerning that function, in which he 
had appeared as the Drummer of the Night Watch 
group. 





The Lampoon medal was designed by his mas- 
ter hand. 



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Attwood's illustration of ^Yheelwright's Pud- 
ding Centennial Poem is a good example of one 
of his manners. 

*' Ireland a la Ruskin," a cartoon in Life illus- 
trating the critic's assertion that "the Irish were 
ever an artistic people," is in the style developed 
by Attwood from his early Doylesque manner, 
which he had at this time made quite his own. 

In Life x\ttwood's most notable work was his 
series of sketches, the "Events of the Month," 
beginning in January, 1887. 



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r?-*^A --' ^-T^/ 




In April, 1898, he gave, "War" and "Loot" 
with a legend quoted from the New Englander, 
with whose satire his own is most comparable, — 



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**Wut did God make us Raytional Creeturs fer 
But Glory an' Gunpowder, Plunder an' Blood?" 







He showed Uncle Sam bargaining with the 



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Spanish Signor. The fateful Iloilo Proclamation 
commands his attention, and he shows The 







Signor, with his $20,000.00, exclaiming, ''Would 
I might sell a few more bargains to the sapient 
Don McKinley!" 



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Attwood's last drawing in Life depicted the 
events of the month of November, 1899. He com- 




-M AKCHITECTUI 
ExPEfq- 



—--ACUHVALDO . IHe. ELLUfiVE: 



ments on the report of the Phihppine Commission, 
deftly sketches the ** illusive Aguinaldo, " and gives 
one of the best political cartoons of his century 



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in his generalization of the end of "The First Act" 
of the Boer War. ShordT after the publication of 
this sketch Attwood fdl ill. Hi iii : Lr fcdLoidng 
Apiil- 

"^Fiancis GillMei- A::" : ^i^t to his woik a 

liberal education, gieat modesbr and indusbnr, and 
a just and thou^tfuL mind. Added to these chaiac- 
teiistics was the gift of a keen and rapid apprecia- 
tion, quite without malice, of f'h'r "^T^ciful and wittv 
dements of human nature . T_ ^ t ilities he used 
with singulailT happv accuracv in his review of the 
events of our daily Kfe. His dear estimate of li^t 
and wrong he applied with equal justness to his 
heroes and to his viclims- It is lefre^iino: to note 
tL: :". Lt ~as so Ktde of a partisan as to be aMe to 
attach Mr. Qevdand and Mr. Harrison, and 

to sf rither Mr. McEnley nor Mr. Biyan. 

His TT i: . :re no resemblance to that exaggerated 
caricature so prevalent in America, but was always 
restrained and dean. 

*• We fed in Attwood's drawings what we knew in 
him — a wit that was keen yet kindly, and severe 
only in scoring humbug and oppre^on, and a 
healthy love for whatever was sound and Aeery 
and tender. Ddicacy, courage, and modesty were 
the essentials of his character. Evervthins he did 
was as wdl done as he could do it; every draw- 
ing nvas finished with instinctive c^nsdentiousness. 



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often at the expense of immense labor. It is pleas- 
ant to realize that his greatest delight lay in the 














production of children and fairies, wrought in fan- 

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ciful schemes of delicate and involved composition. 

"The retiring man. who spent his life in a house 
situated in a secluded part of Jamaica Plain, would 
have been the last one to realize that he had been 
an influence in the life of his country ; but we can- 
not here fail to appreciate his power for good in 
these twenty years of industrious and fanciful 
creation." 

Thus writes Templeman Coolidge in the Cata- 
Ic^Tie of the Memorial Exhibition of Attwijod's 
works given at the Bc'Stji. AI'.ise'.:rQ o: Fine Arts 
two vears after his deaih. 



Good By! 



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CHAEUES AULEETOW COOUDGE '61 WJLUIAM RO&COE THAr^E '&I V/IUUIAM V. J M'! fJt-Cf i-lfiNT ^S2 




A. D- 
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MORTON STIMSON CREHORE "©2- 



LEWJS JESSE DRJDOMAN 'SJ 



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Yet Lampy was destined to come out from his 
hermitage: There remained in College two of the 
former editors of the Sheet. Coolidge. '81. and 
Kent. 'S"-2,who decided to revive the paper. These 
two finally gained somewhat grudging consent 
from the old Lampooners, and having taken onto 



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LAiiPY's >.ZTV House 

the Statf Billv Thaver. Brido^man. Curtis Guild. 
and Carl Sprague of '*81, and Morton Crehore, 
''St?, as Business Editor, in INIarch. 18S1. published 
the first number of the Second Series. Lampy 's 
retirement from the world was but a little longer 
than a college term. 

Many clever writers and draughtsmen haA'e since 
served in the Jester's Sanctum. He still lives, and 
so confident is he of a lone career that he is about 



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to build himself a house on **The Gold Coast," 
where he can gather about him his Penates, and 
provide suitable quarters for the Ibis. The old 
Lampooners hope that those who are to follow 
them may have as happy memories as theirs of 
the days and nights spent in Lampy's services, and 
they rest content with the thought that a columba- 
rium may be provided in the Jester's House. 







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